Tours Inside the Snow Globe (Paperback)

Tonya K. Davidson

ISBN 10: 1771126027 / ISBN 13: 9781771126021

Edité par Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, 2024

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Paperback. The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canadas capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms.Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Womens Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawas statue landscape. Considers monuments in Ottawa, Canadas capital city, as actors participating in dynamic city life rather than objects of history or artifacts of art. Readers are introduced to a wide scope of Canadian history and current issues as well as the fraught subject about whether some monuments should be removed. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781771126021

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Tours Inside the Snow Globe (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1771126027
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781771126021
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada's capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, and racisms.

Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Ottawa Women's Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawa's statue landscape.

À propos de l'auteur

Tonya Davidson teaches sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the co-editor of Seasonal Sociology (with Ondine Park) and Ecologies of Affect (with Ondine Park and Rob Shields).